The 2024 mystery thriller from writer and director Richard Kodai was a movie that I hadn't heard about when I sat down to watch it. So all I knew about it was was the information I got from the synopsis. I will say, though, that the synopsis sounded interesting enough to make me have an interest.

But the end result of the movie was not all that interesting. I found the narrative to be rather bland and devoid of anything overly interesting or thrilling. And I have to admit that the movie got repetitive rather quickly. Sure, that was the point of the time loop narrative, but since it was devoid of overly interesting things happening and a rather slow pacing, then sitting through "Room 0" was somewhat of a struggle.

The movie has a very small cast list, with the majority being voice actors only. The acting performances in the movie were fair, but the actors and actresses didn't really have all that much to work with. I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress in the movie, and that is actually something that I do enjoy when I sit down to watch a movie.

I have to say that "Room 0" fell short of entertaining me, and this is definitely not a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time. Nor is it a movie that I will recommend for fans of mystery thrillers to sit down and watch. This movie is no "Groundhog Day" movie, far from it actually.

My rating of writer and director Richard Kodai's 2024 movie lands on a generous two out of ten stars.

Natalya Wood played the main character decently enough, although I felt like she could have been more relatable. Her raw emotions definitely portrayed a protagonist who struggles with the life choices she has made to date, but I expected to see her in a more chaotic state since she was so young and unfamiliar with the tech she was tasked with carrying.

Throughout the story, I was often left wondering how this young woman got involved with mobsters in the first place (was it the influence from her useless boyfriend, or was the mobster who hired her to steal it paying her sister's hospital bills?), and the film dragged on a bit when it came to some of the texting scenes and iterations of the loop. Although Frank's sinister nature was very believable when he began to describe how he tracked down the young woman's family, I sometimes struggled with the authenticity of the portrayal of some of the other people she spoke to over the phone.

Overall though, Room 0 has the potential to become the first of a series of films that continue to explore the real-world implications and consequences of missing the moments that matter most to us throughout the time we have as human beings on this Earth.